This is a whole new level of lmao.

PS5 disc edition that has a missing disc drive:



Holy shit this is incredible.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 17 2020, 01:08 PM

I don't know how it's possible to mess up the covers. You'd have to be high AF or blind not to notice a missing disc drive before putting the cover on.

Furthermore, the factory is 90% machine operated....

For the person in that pic, the store told him he needs to wait until after black friday to expect the next stock shipment. So yeah, can't play until then.


I took that pic from resetera, so presumably it's from the US since EU hasn't gotten their launch yet.

It takes 2 to tango.

This is why no one respects the gaming community here.

There isn't. Gaming communities are trash and toxic.

Just found out PS5 doesn't support anything higher than UAC1 for external USB DACs. So all that dumb hype talk about tempest engine, 3D audio and the focus on higher fidelity for games all becomes superficial talk to lead the dumb to become even dumber.

They removed the optical port, but then also decided NOT to allow passthrough of headphone audio on the HDMI port. That means no work around other than rely on the meh headphone jack of the dualsense. Mind boggling from a company that also does audio.

Sony: we want games to sound good, but you can't have options to make your audio experience better because we can't figure out how to support anything.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 17 2020, 08:34 PM

If your DAC is using UAC1, then it works. If it's UAC2 (which is what most external DACs now a days use), then too bad.

No, you don't need official headset to enjoy 3D audio. Any headphone plugged into the dualsense will work with 3D audio, however the problem with the dualsense is that its micro-amp is weak. It's a little better than DS4, but no where near the XSX controller. So high impedance headphone will be out of luck too.

Sony is so trash.

Fuck me inside out because I was dreaming to go from PS5 > JDS Labs EL Dac > STAX Amp > Stax SRL700.

3D audio on the STAX would be mind blowing. But I guess Sony doesn't like good quality audio after all.

Use la logic.

US market is bigger than all Asian regions combined, EU and UK only got theirs today. So bigger market = more consoles = potentially larger number of reported problems.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 19 2020, 07:48 PM

It's a $400 console lawl.

People love to conveniently forget that part.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 20 2020, 01:04 AM

There is no difference between 30fps on Spider-Man PS4/PS4 Pro and Miles Morales 30fps on PS5. The numbers don't lie, watch the analysis videos on DF and NX Gamer if you want to know more.

What's happening is that you're switching from 60fps down to 30fps immediately, that is extremely jarring and you'd have to allow for your eyes and brains to re-adjust to the lower framerate over a period of time. Similarly, try booting up the game from 30fps first and play for an hour. Then immediately switch to 60, the fluidity would be much more apparent that it actually is.

This is an entirely normal phenomenon.

This is not true and I really do not like nor understand why this misconception started. 3D audio works with ANY headphone as long as you can connect it to the dualsense via 3.5mm unbalanced input. Those with balanced headphones, you gotta find a way to convert of which of course will degrade audio quality but that's a different topic.

The Pulse 3D (I bet the name is one of the reasons why people get confused) headset IS NOT mandatory to utilize 3D audio.

That's why, blind leading the blind. Stupidity breeds kebodohan.

The concept of 3D audio, which is real time binaural feedback is not even understood and people assume it's just some fancy way of creating surround sound for headphones.

Fucking knew the PS5's HDMI 2.1 implementation was gimped as soon I saw the the teardown vids of the console when they revealed the Panasonic HDMI chipset Sony chose to use.

Limited to 32Gbps lmao, that means games are limited to YUV 422 and that's simply unacceptable for a system in 2020, going into 2021.

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This is not true. 45fps will still feel like 45fps, it will not be smooth because the framerate is inherently low. VRR eliminates the judder and screen tearing, but it does not eliminate low framerate and high latency.

45fps (or whatever lower number you want to mention) will not feel like 60 and certainly 60 will not feel like 120 either with VRR. There is a major difference.

45fps doesn't look like 60fps, at all, not even close.

Smooth within the context of 45fps yes, just like 30fps would be smooth if there are no framepacing issues. But low framerate is low framerate, it is not smooth at all.

I don't think you understand and certainly have not experienced VRR.

Yes of course the transition of fluctuating framerates will be smoother with VRR. That is NOT what I'm talking about. I'm saying that 45fps or whatever lower number will still feel slow no matter what kind of sync technology you put on it.

If the game drops from 60 to 45, you WILL feel that at 45 it is NOT smooth. Understand?

Actually, 2160p on 1440p will look bad regardless, just like 1080p upscaled to 1440p. The reason is simple - maths.

2560x1440 does not multiply evenly to 3840x2160. This is important because when monitors upscale, they use what is called nearest-neighbor upscaling or downscaling. However for this technique to work, the pixels on the nearest neighbor needs to be an exact even multiplication to the resolution it is being upscaled/downscaling to. So the result is not just a blurry looking image, but odd warping of pixels in certain angles because there is no information for the monitor to use in order to fill the missing gaps of a lower or higher resolution output.

This goes the same for 1920x1080 to 2560x1440. But funny enough, 1920x1080 is an exact even multiplication of guess what - 3840x2160. This is why 1080p upscaled to 2160p has always looked almost as good (in some cases, better even) as it was on a native 1080p panel.


So no, simply because Sony doesn't support 1440p doesn't mean people should accept it and rely on downscaling. It doesn't work right.

Actually it's easier to notice it on a smaller screen because you're going to be sitting closer to the screen. Most people sit 8-10ft from a 65" TV, where as most will still sit 3ft at most from a 32" monitor.